Joel Snyder is an internationally known expert in the area of telecommunications and networks, with an emphasis on security. His thesis, from the University of Arizona's Department of Management Information Systems, analyzed the development, use, and technologies of computer networks in the former Soviet Union. He is currently a Senior Partner at Opus One, a consulting firm, in Tucson, Arizona.
As a consultant with over two decades of experience, Snyder has written compilers, data management applications, conferencing systems, VLSI layout applications, firewalls, and network software; designed and implemented information systems for clients as small as a two-person brokerage house and as large as NASA; built network systems for clients on six continents; assisted software and hardware vendors in design, review, architecture, development, and testing of products; and served on ANSI, IEEE, ISO, and CCITT working groups developing telecommunications standards.
Snyder has also held full-time positions with CompuServe, Inc. (at their Research and Development Center) and with the University of Arizona (in the College of Business).
Snyder's clients include organizations throughout the Americas, Europe, and Asia, including Apple, AT&T, Australian Broadcasting Company, Cisco, Citibank, Daimler-Benz, Fidelity Investments, Hoffman-La Roche, Honeywell, Juniper, MCI, Motorola, Nokia, Schlumberger, State of California, the Swiss Stock Exchange, the UN, Visa, Xerox, the White House, and World Bank.
As an author and trainer, Snyder has given keynote speeches at conferences in the US, Western and Eastern Europe, Asia, and throughout the former Soviet republics. He has presented training seminars to many clients, including both private and public agencies.
Snyder has written hundreds of articles, has been published in over a dozen different journals and industry magazines in the US, UK, Russia, Germany, Australia, Portugal, Denmark, Japan, Spain, Italy, and France. His product testing work in network and telecommunications products is well known and respected in the field, and his published reviews have received several awards for editorial excellence.
Dr. Snyder has also written three books and edited two journals.
Recent tests and articles by Joel Snyder:
Interop Labs test results: Microsoft gets it NAC act together Apr. 28, 2008 The world of network access control is being drawn, irresistibly, into Microsoft's orbit now that the Redmond giant's full repertoire of Network Access Protection client, server and policy components are out there in ...
Interop Labs: Network engineers focus on NAC, UC products Apr. 28, 2008 In early April, in a drafty warehouse in Belmont, California, dozens of network engineers attempted to piece together hundreds of commercial and open source products as part of the 2008 Interop Labs initiative.
UTM firewall review: SonicWall smashes speed records Apr. 07, 2008 Last month, SonicWall rolled out its next-generation UTM firewall appliance geared straight for the enterprise. In our exclusive test of the Network Security Appliance E7500, results show that SonicWall has, indeed, ...
How we tested SonicWall E7500 Apr. 07, 2008 We evaluated the E7500 using the same criteria we used in our November, 2007 UTM test. Because the main changes in the firewall were in its performance capabilities, we focused on performance testing.
Sourcefire boasts strong IPS management toolset Jan. 21, 2008 SourceFire's most recent release of its 3D System certainly puts the company on the right track to making network intrusion-detection/prevention systems useful tools in the enterprise. In the Sourcefire 3D System ...
How we tested Sourcefire's 3D System Jan. 21, 2008 We installed two IPS sensors within our production network, one based on Sourcefire hardware and based on Nokia hardware.
How we tested the firewalls Dec. 10, 2007 For this test, we used the same firewalls and configurations that had been submitted by all vendors that had participated in our UTM firewall test. In that test, we asked vendors to submit devices that could handle ...
Review: Who's got the fastest firewall? Dec. 10, 2007 As a follow-up to Network World's previous rounds of baseline Unified Threat Management testing, we conducted a second high-speed test of only the firewalls shipping within the UTM boxes. These subsequent firewall tests ...
UTM performance takes a hit Nov. 12, 2007 Most enterprises will want to proceed cautiously when adding UTM features, such as intrusion-prevention systems and antivirus scanning, to their perimeter firewall boxes, because of their unpredictable impact on total ...
Juniper's ISG-1000, SSG-520M Nov. 12, 2007 The ISG-1000 is the oldest piece of hardware we tested, but that didn't keep it from registering the highest score. The SSG-520M is a 2U device, also with four 10/100/1000 Ethernet ports, but sports six slots and the ...
Tracking UTM high availability Nov. 12, 2007 The high-availability and scalability features in the enterprise UTM firewalls we tested range from very fancy to dead simple.
Watts up with power consumption? Nov. 12, 2007 The data center may seem a big place, but watts are watts: Every one you use costs you money. Two firewalls in a high-availability pair may not be the biggest power expense in a computer room, but that's no excuse to ...
Crossbeam C25 (running CheckPoint VPN-1 and Secure Platform) Nov. 12, 2007 Crossbeam is one of the few dot-com companies focusing on the enterprise security market to have made it through the bad years. It is reaping the fruits of its strategy to build high-end multifunction security gateways.
'All-in-one' firewalls fall short Nov. 12, 2007 In this Clear Choice Test, we set out to determine whether we could find a UTM firewall that could scale up successfully in performance, feature set and manageability.
IBM/ISS Proventia MX5010 Multi-Function Security Gateway Nov. 12, 2007 The Proventia MX5010 is an amazingly fast IPS that outclassed the competition when it came to detecting the attacks we threw at it. Unfortunately, that world-class IPS is housed in a firewall and sporting management ...
Cisco ASA5540 with SSM-20 IPS module Nov. 12, 2007 The ASA 5540 is one of a range of firewalls that together replace Cisco's PIX and 3000-series VPN concentrator lines.
Fortinet FortiGate 3600A Nov. 12, 2007 Fortinet's FortiGate 3600A is in the midrange of Fortinet's broad UTM firewall product line, which starts at SOHO devices and moves its way up to a carrier-sized chassis.
Check Point VPN-1 UTM Gateway Nov. 12, 2007 Check Point and its hardware partners -- Crossbeam, IBM and Nokia-- each submitted different hardware platforms for this test running a common application: Check Point's VPN-1 software. Likewise, we used Check Point's ...
How we tested UTM firewalls Nov. 12, 2007 We invited all major firewall vendors to participate in this Enterprise UTM Firewall test last June. To prepare for the test, we wrote a test methodology, which we circulated to enterprise network managers, other ...
Check Point’s own UTM-1 2050 Nov. 12, 2007 Check Point's UTM-1 family of hardware appliances combine small, 1U devices, with Check Point's own Secure Platform operating system, VPN-1 firewall, and some additional management tools not found in the version of ...
The Evolution of Network Security
- ProCurve Networking by HP We have so many holes punched in our firewalls today that many industry insiders question the value of perimeter defenses. In fact, most recent security advances are focused on what's happening behind the safeguards. This editorial guide looks at new security developments, current thinking and what's next -- from Network Access Control to ID management, data leakage and compliance tools.
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